Needle Insertion Articles & Analysis
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When you're just starting out in the world of healthcare, whether as a nursing student, medical trainee, or phlebotomy learner, few things feel as nerve-racking as your first needle insertion. You've read the textbooks, watched the tutorials, and maybe even practiced on an orange or a banana, but when it comes to human skin, confidence often lags behind theory. This guide is for you - the ...
Micromate™ Case Report series presents real cases performed by the physicians currently using our full-fledged robotic platform for percutaneous procedures. Today, we join Dr. Alexander Kupferthaler, Interventional Radiologist at the Ordensklinikum Linz – Barmherzige Schwestern, for a robot-guided bone biopsy. Clinical Context 65-year-old female with invasive lobular carcinoma of ...
Sanofi-backed Enable Injections has gone big with its series C round. Three years after Sanofi led its series B, Enable Injections has raised a $215 million round to fund work on subcutaneous drug delivery system enFuse. Enable Injections’ device consists of a wearable delivery disc and a system for transferring the drug from its original vessel. Users put the disc in the transfer ...
Rani Therapeutics Holdings (NSDQ:RANI), developer of a robotic drug-delivery pill system, generated $73.3 million in its underwritten initial public offering (IPO) of Class A common stock. The San Jose, Calif.–based company’s IPO of 6.7 million shares priced at $11 a share, generating gross proceeds of $73.3 million. The company initially targeted an IPO worth approximately $100 ...
Introduction Suturing techniques are used to hold and strengthen body tissues to help wounds heal after surgery or due to an injury. The techniques minimize bleeding and prevent infections. They are available in two types: non-absorbable and absorbable sutures. The absorbable sutures are made of natural material that breaks down and is absorbed in the body with time. On the other hand, ...
My hands are trembling. I have a 12-inch surgery grade needle in my right hand, and a transducer in my left. Without moving anything but my eyes I’m able to look up at a monitor to see an ultrasound image and the daunting outline of a tumor. “Go ahead, you can do it. Insert the needle directly into the tumor,” my guide tells me. I hesitate, take a deep breath out of fear or ...
Tissue engineering small diameter vascular grafts requires excessive culture times to produce an appropriate extracellular matrix (ECM). The use of decellularised exogenous tissue as a scaffold has the potential to overcome this limitation due to the preformed ideal ECM architecture that remains after decellularisation. While this scaffold reduces ECM maturation times cell seeding is difficult ...